In this section we have collated all the previously published articles and blogs written by Paul Gilbert, Jonathan Smith and guests.
This is a resource for you to browse and is free to view. The first articles were published in the early 2000’s, but retain a relevance that is still valid and informative today. The later pieces reflect the changing face of the legal profession and the threat/opportunity for the role of lawyers in business and in our society.
We hope you will find that their opinions add to the debates of the day and inform, challenge and occasionally provoke. Please also join them in that debate on Twitter and follow Jonathan @jdsofislip and Paul @LBCWiseCounsel.
What is to become of us?
What is to become of us – we who have given our best, but who now have reached an age where we cannot easily say that our best is yet to come? What is to become of us whose best will also now be judged by those who were not there when it was our… More
Politics – It is mostly listening required
It is hard to follow politics and not feel disconnected. This is an odd phenomenon in our 24/7 news channel, social media, multi-channel, multi-platform, your-call-is-important-to-us world. Politics on social media is illustrative of this feeling because the posts tend to fall into three distinct groups: First, are the personal attacks on individuals or groups as… More
500 words and 10 things EVERY legal department can do to be more valuable
Five hundred words and ten things EVERY legal department can do to be more valuable for their organisations and for themselves: Have the clearest possible statement of what the team do and why. Be explicit about scope; align scope to your organisation’s needs. Do not pretend you can do everything for everyone, whenever they want… More
A path less trodden to a better place
There are some big workplace structural inadequacies that still hang in the air; inadequacies that my generation has so far failed to nail down. They include the gender pay gap, diversity in leadership roles and flexible working. It is possible to say there is some progress and that we should see the trends as positive,… More
Over confident
Leaders often describe the confidence of others, and yet the word “confidence” is one of those too-easy-to-use words that gets bandied about without enough care as to what it is describing or truly means. I am sure we mostly use it intending well, but it is a lumpen word that we should be far more… More